Spanish anti-piracy arrests
Europol and Spain ’ s Cuerpo Nacional de Policía ( Spanish National Police ) have arrested six individuals in what they suggest is a “ big hit ” to illegal TV streaming networks .
The Spanish National Police , supported by Europol ’ s Intellectual Property Crime Coordinated Coalition ( IPC ³), arrested six individuals from a crime ring suspected of selling illegal television signals from more than 14,000 international points of sale . The signals were sold
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through a company which designed the application needed to illegally stream films , television series and sport events .
The investigation began when copyright protection trade body Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales ( EGEDA ), multimedia communications group Mediapro and the Spanish football league La Liga filed a complaint with the police . During the course of the investigation , police officers discovered a company , based in Galicia , Spain which was
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suspected of transmitting pay-TV channels signals illegally .
The company developed both the decoder device and the application needed to illegally access the paid channels . The decoder was sold for € 120 and the server to transmit the illegal signal was hosted in France and controlled from the business in Spain .
In total , eight house searches were carried out in Spain , resulting in the
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arrest of six members of the organised crime group and the seizure of 4,600 IT devices .
On the day of the raids , Europol supported the investigation on the ground by deploying an analyst and a specialist to Spain equipped with a mobile office and a data extraction device . This allowed for realtime information exchange and cross-checks of the data gathered during the course of the action against Europol ’ s databases .
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